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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by vacipr »

tracker1 wrote: post #391
vacipr wrote: post #4

What the fuck. Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/ Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png

Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

They address some of the problems in their new blog post.

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/45337829605/unexpected-day...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mineo »

jap wrote: post #511
tracker1 wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

Could be an oversight. I think "manage my contacts" is a default permission requested when not explicitely setting the scope in OAuth...

This is not an oversight, it's even mentioned in their privacy policy [0], although I also stopped at that point. Whenever I see a service requesting permission to even have a look at my contact list, I really wish there were a button like "No, I really don't need this social stuff because I know noone in my contact list uses your service anyway and if someone does, I really don't care".

[0] http://theoldreader.com/pages/privacy

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Flenser »

conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

How many sites can a free account follow? The front page copy says 64, but when I log in it says I can only turn on 12.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Ziomislaw »

conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

newsblur sucks totally, its interface is overloaded, it is slow. it only allows you a few feeds (unless you pay)

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Mahn »

dan15 wrote: post #363
initself wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PHP and MySQL, yuck!

PHP and MySQL aren't that bad (and support for them is pretty much guaranteed on every web host). However, the fact that it supports PHP 4.2 and MySQL 3.23 makes me wonder how old the code base is! Makes me think it's using so many obsolete PHP methods, the deprecated MySQL extension, and is all procedural code (which almost always seems to be spaghetti code with PHP).

So what if it works, it's not like you are going to have to scale it to millions of users. Just make sure it's firewalled and you're good to go.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Flenser »

callil wrote: post #15

Still he best way to read content on the web, really sad to see it go. Adding on to this: What he hell do I do with my starred items now, it's literally the best collection of content I have curated in my life and I reference it all the time. edit: petition to keep it open http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-don-t-kill-goo...

This petition has 10x the number of signatures

https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by dpcx »

Ziomislaw wrote: post #594
conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

newsblur sucks totally, its interface is overloaded, it is slow. it only allows you a few feeds (unless you pay)

In what way is it slow? I've been using it for almost 2 years now, and have only seen slowness with particular feeds.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Ziomislaw »

tvchurch wrote: post #167

I'd urge everyone to give Readertron (readertron.com) a try. It was built by programmer (and good friend of mine) who was frustrated when Google nerfed the ability to share among friends within Google Reader. It's a work in progress, but at least you can share articles among friends again. He's also very responsive to requests for features.

uhg! tried it. after signing in I was presented with a "You are already subscribed to the following shared feeds." and two pages of random people I've never even heard about. I strongly advise against it.
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